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<h2>FirstYearGPA</h2>

<h3>Description</h3>

<p>Predicting first-year college GPA
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<h3>Format</h3>

<p>A dataset with 219 observations on the following 10 variables.
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    <code>GPA</code> </td><td style="text-align: left;"> First-year college GPA on a 0.0-4.0 scale</td>
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    <code>HSGPA</code> </td><td style="text-align: left;"> High school GPA on a 0.0-4.0 scale</td>
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    <code>SATV</code> </td><td style="text-align: left;"> Verbal/critical reading SAT score</td>
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    <code>SATM</code> </td><td style="text-align: left;"> Math SAT score</td>
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    <code>Male</code> </td><td style="text-align: left;"> <code>1</code>= male, <code>0</code>= female</td>
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    <code>HU</code> </td><td style="text-align: left;"> Number of credit hours earned in humanities courses in high school</td>
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    <code>SS</code> </td><td style="text-align: left;"> Number of credit hours earned in social science courses in high school</td>
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    <code>FirstGen</code> </td><td style="text-align: left;"> <code>1</code>= student is the first in her or his family to attend college, <code>0</code>=otherwise</td>
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    <code>White</code> </td><td style="text-align: left;"> <code>1</code>= white students, <code>0</code>= others</td>
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    <code>CollegeBound</code> </td><td style="text-align: left;"> <code>1</code>=attended a high school where &gt;=50% students intended to go on to college, <code>0</code>=otherwise</td>
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<h3>Details</h3>

<p>The data in FirstYearGPA contains information from a sample of 219
first year students at a midwestern college that might be used to build a model to predict their first
year GPA.
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<h3>Source</h3>

<p>A sample from a larger set of data collected in 1996 by a professor at this college.
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